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Hamas rejects ‘foreign guardianship’ of Gaza ahead of UNSC vote
(AL-JAZEERA) The UN Security Council is set to vote on a US resolution detailing the International Stabilisation Force outlined in Trump’s ceasefire.
A Hamas spokesman has told Al Jazeera that the group rejects the presence of foreign military personnel in Gaza, saying it would be exchanging Israeli occupation for “foreign guardianship”.
Meanwhile, Gaza authorities say displaced Palestinians need at least 300,000 tents to shelter in as winter in the enclave deepens.
Israa feeds Keraz, Kifah, and Jumana [Atia Darwish/Al Jazeera]
Now, the Wafa news agency reports that at least 13 civilians, including children, were wounded. They were transferred to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where one of them was described as being in critical condition.
Settlers also set fire to several homes and vehicles in the village of Al-Jaba’, southwest of the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, a local official has told the Wafa news agency.
Dhyab Masha‘la, the head of the village’s council, said they torched three Palestinian homes, one shack and three vehicles, causing extensive damage.
Villagers had managed to extinguish the flames, he added, noting that no one was injured.
It comes after settlers were reported to have injured a number of Palestinians earlier today in an attack in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.
A source at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital, tells Al Jazeera that “a number” of people were wounded when Israeli drones fired on a school sheltering displaced people in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, north Gaza.
Israel violated the ceasefire in Gaza hundreds of times according to local authorities, and continues to kill and wound Palestinians on a daily basis.
Israeli security forces evacuated and demolished an illegal settler outpost in the occupied West Bank, with the authorities citing “severe incidents of violence”.
A large force was deployed to the Tzour Misgavi outpost in the Gush Etzion area, south of Jerusalem, video footage broadcast by Israeli media showed.
Heavy machinery could be seen preparing to demolish the structures, with one clip showing a bulldozer knocking into the side of a building with people standing on top.
Israeli media said 25 families were evacuated from the site.
In recent weeks, attacks attributed to Israeli settlers, notably those living in outposts, have multiplied in the West Bank, targeting Palestinians, Israeli and foreign anti-settlement activists and sometimes Israeli soldiers.
“The evacuation is being carried out in accordance with the law and the applicable regulations,” said COGAT, the Israeli body that runs civil affairs in the Palestinian territories.
“Criminal activity and severe incidents of violence at the site affected the security of the area,” it said in a statement.
This is a rare instance of Israeli authorities taking punitive actions against settlers, more than 500,000 who illegally live on Palestinian lands and in their homes in the occupied West Bank.
October was one of the worst months ever recorded for settler violence against Palestinians, as they tried to conduct their annual olive harvest. Many attacks take place under the observation of, or even with direct aid from, Israeli troops.
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